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The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.
Consider, for a moment, the paper cut. It happens suddenly and entirely unexpectedly, usually just as you are finally getting somewhere on that task you had been putting...

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When President Trump delivered his much-ballyhooed address on drug prices in May, even supporters conceded there were more question marks among his policy ideas than concrete proposals.
But over the past week, the Trump administration has begun to put some periods at the ends of the sentences.
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A bat has tested positive for rabies in Jasper National Park, according to Alberta Health Services and Parks Canada.AHS said a hiker reported the bat on the Valley of Five Lakes trail, just south of Jasper, last weekend.Parks Canada staff investigated and captured the bat.A...

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New research is upending old assumptions about what the ancestors of today's Inuit learned from Viking settlers.Techniques researchers have developed show that ancient Dorset and Thule people knew how to spin yarn centuries before the Norse were thought to have taught them, changing the way...

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As the sun was rising on another long, gruelling, hot day in Dezhou, China, Ben Wareing tried to stay upbeat and focused on the task ahead: finishing building an entire house, from the ground up, with just 10 days left to go in the Solar...